Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Strategy, Part I – What is AI? “Artificial Intelligence (also AI) (noun) The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation…

How to avoid being caught in the middle… In any given field it’s often possible to tell who the real giants are by looking at the number of people lining up to knock them down. By this measure, Harvard…

Or What I Learned From Shooting Martians… I have something of a fondness for point-and-click strategy games. The sort that don’t need any keyboard dexterity. And top of the heap in this world is probably the Xcom series by Firaxis….

Authored by Carl Michel, an Operating Partner of The Strategy Exchange, and originally published at Firedrop.ai. This week, I got an email from a large and well-known online hotel provider offering me some competitive options to book a hotel in…

Introduction This article gives a brief overview of flash business reaction to the referendum outcome, consensus economic forecasts and our views on them, our central and upside cases for trade negotiations, our take on regulatory issues, potential implications for private,…

Usually the best way to figure something out is to lock yourself away and concentrate. Sorry, that’s just the way it is. Open plan offices are a disaster from this perspective. So, often but not always, are the ubiquitous ‘brainstorming’…

Part One took a heroic stab at explaining the technology that underpins Bitcoin – the blockchain. But although the mysterious inventor (or inventors) of the blockchain concept, ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, wrote specifically about using it to implement a ‘crypto-currency’, the concept…

In 1936, a promising young Cambridge Mathematician, Alan Mathison Turing, published a peculiar paper with a misleadingly dry title. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem was an important piece of work in the world of formal mathematical…

For the last quarter century I’ve eaten most weeks at a nearby Italian restaurant, Roberto’s. Locally to where I live there isn’t a huge choice anyway, but this one would still hold its own in the middle of the Metropolis,…